Investigation into Yury Zakharanka case extended

The investigation
into the case of former Interior Minister and opposition leader Yury
Zakharanka, who was forcibly abducted in May 1999, has been extended until 24
December 2011, the Narodnaya Volya newspaper reports.

This is
another extension in an endless series of formal decisions by the Belarusian
prosecuting authorities over the past 12 years, says human rights defender Aleh
Vouchak.